I am concerned about the budget, which leaves out seven of the coastal ports in Oregon for fiscal year 2018.

Well, in that case, you are the right man for this job and you are going to have a lot of fun. It is a significant challenge.

The resources are constrained and you have to make choices.

I extend to my colleague from Hawaii every blessing for her successful health treatment. I know the thoughts and prayers of every Member of the Senate are with her tomorrow and beyond as she undertakes that healing path…

I appreciate the comments of the Senator from Hawaii tonight. They are certainly very relevant to the issue of healthcare here in America because each of us hopes that if a loved one gets ill, they will have the peace of mind that they…

You heard of the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', but the Republican health care movie is mean and meaner.

on May 4 of this year, there was a party at the White House, a celebration--a celebration that the House had passed TrumpCare. Indeed, the President wanted to invite people over and say what a great job they had done and what a great bill…

any decision to actually recover oil would still rest with Congress.

I think we can get some funds to try to make this quarantine actually work effectively before it becomes a factor that either starts destroying our BLM forests or eliminates the ability to export nursery stock from some of the key ports in…

Very important to many of our counties in the west that have such a large percentage of Federal land.

the prevention side gets robbed to pay the fire suppression side.

I appreciate your willingness to work with us. Thank you.

I appreciate that a great deal.

the public safety budget is cut by $28 million and the Indian education by $64 million and the overall Bureau of Indian Affairs is cut by about $300 million.

I will continue the discussion with you.

the Federal Government should clean it up, and then go decade after decade with doing virtually nothing out there.

Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China.

I appreciate the remarks from my colleague from Wisconsin, who came here to champion the citizens of her State and the citizens of all of America. As she spoke so passionately about the need to make sure we have affordable, quality…

this weekend, I was out doing townhalls in rural Oregon. I was in Klamath County and Lake County--counties that on any map would be described as solidly red. At my townhalls, people were turning out with one huge anxiety; that is, the…

will my colleague yield for a moment? The majority leader has returned to the floor to hear a unanimous consent request--actually two of them--which we will make very brief and then yield back to the Senator from New Jersey.

The group that I am referring to are the 13 Republican Senators who have been delegated the authority to prepare a bill to be brought to the floor, one that will have no public input.

There are 13 Senators who are holding a series of closed meetings to work to prepare a version of the bill that will come before the Senate, probably next week.

The department you head covers products that constitute 20 percent of what consumers spend both in food and drugs.

I am concerned that this request relies on a significant increase in user fees that is not feasible and unlikely to gain congressional approval.

I imagine, just knowing your background, that you probably share my concerns that such issues get the insight from experts and also that the public has a chance to weigh in, so that we get, in this 'We the People' Republic, a full…